Lights vs Embellishment - What's the difference?
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The lungs, now only of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.3:
*:But forst him gape and gaspe, with dread aghast, / As if his lungs and lites were nigh asunder brast.
(light)
An unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.
Lights is a related term of embellishment.
As nouns the difference between lights and embellishment
is that lights is while embellishment is an unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.As a verb lights
is (light).lights
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* slightembellishment
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(en noun)- 1811' ''Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; -- she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any '''embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray.'' Jane Austen, ''Sense and Sensibility , Section 3,
Chapter 1.